Advertising mechanism



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Patented Jan. 14, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ADVERTISING MECHANISM Fred H. Jensen, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Application August 10, 1935, Serial No. 35,576

2 Claims.

The present invention relates to advertising mechanisms; and its object is, generally, to provide an improved mechanism of that character which shall attract attention and suggest advantages of goods offered for sale; and particularly, to provide such a mechanism in which simulations of destructive insects are displayed in motion.

This and any other and more specific objects hereinafter appearing are attained by, and the invention finds preferable embodiment in, the illustrative mechanism and devices particularly described in the body of this specification and illustrated by the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 isa view in perspective of an advertising mechanism, its top layer being partially broken away;

Figure 2 is a horizontal sectional view thereof taken on line 2-2 of Figure 3;

Figure 3 is a vertical sectional view of the same taken on line 3-3 of Figure 2;

Figure 4 is a detail vertical sectional (enlarged) view of parts of the same taken on the same line 33.

In the embodiment of the invention illustrated by the drawing, my advertising mechanism includes a box base I with a horizontal platform or cover plate having a narrow circuitous track gap 3 therethrough dividing the cover plate into two sections, the outer section 4 being supported on the upper edges of the sides 5 of the box and held against sliding movement thereon by the pins 6 extending upwardly from said sides and engaging in sockets I in the under side of said section, and the middle section 8 resting on suitable supports in the box, as the pins 9 whose upper ends are received in sockets lil in the under side of said middle section, so that these sections 4, 8 are removably held in a position maintaining the track gap of proper width throughout. A plurality of pulleys H in the box are rotatable on these pins 9 and carry a belt l2 which is travelled by suitable means as by the motor l3 whose shaft pulley l4 and a pulley l5 on one of said pulleys carry the driving belt |6 as illustrated.

Devices simulating winged moth insects or the like as shown which destroy furs, woolen fabrics, etc. are carried above the cover plate by the belt I2 underneath. These devices have downwardly extending members, the supporting member [8 whose lower end is fastened on the belt and the members 2| which simulate the insects legs. These devices are flexibly supported so as to be vibratile, the belt I! itself being, of course, flexible between its carrying pulleys and the member l8 being a slender spring wire, and the leg members 2| and also the wing simulating parts 22 are flexible and elastic.

As the belt is travelled carrying these devices with it, the resistance of the air through which they pass flexes the member I8 and causes the devices to vibrate somewhat; and this vibration is increased and such simulation is augmented by the frictional contact of some or all of said members with the stationary top cover or the top layer I9 thereof which has upwardly extending brush fibres or bristles 20 through which the legs 2| pass and the support member I8 also passes, these fibres at the sides of the track gap extending over the same as best shown in Figure 4.

or hereinbefore described.

I claim:

1. In mechanism of the character described: a platform having outwardly extending fiexible bristles; a belt beneath the platform movable in a direction parallel therewith; devices above the platform having downwardly extending members, some of said members being fastened on the belt for circuitously traveling the devices by the belt and some of said members being vibratile and frictionally engaging the bristles in the movement of the belt to vibrate the devices.

2. In mechanism of the character described: a platform having a circuitous track gap therethrough and outwardly extending bristles; belt beneath the platform movable in a direction parallel with the gap; devices above the platform having downwardly extending members, some of said members being fastened on the belt for circuitously traveling the devices by the belt and some of said members being vibratile and frictionally engaging the bristles adjacent the gap in the movement of the belt to vibrate the devices.

FRED H. JENSEN. 

